Originally Posted by
Muley70
LOL, are you reading what your writing? How in the world does this sound straight foward? Look, Linda M's office approved this language from the bills sponsor against objections from MOGA, Linda is the governers appointment, a governor who is no friend of outfitters. This was a classic rural/urban vote with the urban areas voting for. The were several instances of signiture fraud documented with foresics and hand writing analysis, all waived by a governor appointed judge. The defense in the case, the pro-I161 defense, argued it was ok for the sponsors of the bill to lie, as it was the voters responsibility to discern the truth. I-161 is a sham, a political peice of garbage ram-rodded through and twisted and munipulated for a yes vote. There is no increase in revenue it the tags don't sell out, there is a net revenue loss if they under sell, where is that language?
Honestly, if that looks like an objective Iniative to you I don't know what to say.
Keep crying a frickin' river Muley, but the fact remains that initiative is written at about a 5th grade level. If you or anybody else have trouble reading that, then you should really brush up on your junior high level English comprehension. All the conspiracy theory crap was played out in court and it lost, plain and simple. I-161 was passed by a margin of more than 26,000 votes and it really doesn't matter how urban or rural the distribution was. There are plenty of active hunters in Billings, Great Falls, Missoula, Bozeman, etc. It's not like people from New York City were able to vote on it. Even with the backing of the NRA and the RMEF and considerably better funding the opposition flopped.
The thing that's surprising is that you are complaining so much, but you seem to think the licenses will be undersold. If that's the case then not only will you still have guaranteed tags, but a deer/elk combo will be $353 CHEAPER for your clients!!! Nothing in the initiative bans outfitting, so it should actually make your operations more attractive because the licenses will go from $1250 to $897. Now it's time to stop acting like a prima donna because your guaranteed hand in the cookie jar got taken away and learn to play by the new rules. There are plenty of states that don't have outfitter sponsored licenses and their outfitting industries are doing just fine.